“I tried to keep my distance, but my world doesn't work without you in it.”
“Mallory," he said, sounding raw and staggered and touched beyond words. "God, I was so stupid. So slow. I didn't know what to do with you. I tried to keep my distance but my world doesn't work without you in it."-Ty to Mallory”
“This is not what you want to hear, but to me, it doesn't seem there was a time before I loved you. And though I try to keep my distance from you... even now you keep giving me reasons to love you more.”
“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you," he said.”
“You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you,” he said.”
“Don't bother trying to guilt me. Ask my other. It doesn't work.”